Two "New Apparition Poems" by Adam Fieled

#1112

“Fuck art let’s dance”

only we didn’t dance,

we fucked, and when

we fucked, it was like

dancing, and dancing

was like art, because

the climax was warm,

left us wanting more—

how can I know this

dancer from the dance?

O brightening glance,

how tight the dance

was, and the sense that

pure peace forever was

where it had to end for

both of us, only your

version was me dead,

after I had permanently

died inside you like the

male spider always does—

#1136

Pull me towards you—

woven color patterns

create waves beneath

us, tears buoy bodies

to a state beyond “one”

into meshed silk webs—

not every pull is gravitational—

as two spiders float upwards,

I say to you (as we multiply

beyond ourselves) “those

two are a bit much, their

sixteen legs making love”

 

Adam Fieled is a poet based in Philadelphia. He has released five print books: "Opera Bufa" (Otoliths, 2007), "When You Bit..." (Otoliths, 2008), "Chimes" (Blazevox, 2009), "Apparition Poems" (Blazevox, 2010), and "Equations" (blue & yellow dog press, 2011), as well as e-books like "Beams" (Blazevox, 2007), "Disturb the Universe: The Collected Essays of Adam Fieled" (Argotist e-books, 2010), and "Mother Earth" (Argotist e-books, 2011). He has work in Jacket, Cordite, Pennsound, Poetry Salzburg Review, the Argotist, Great Works, Tears in the Fence, Upstairs at Duroc, and in the & Now Awards Anthology from Lake Forest College Press. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he also holds an MFA from New England College and an MA from Temple University.